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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen
Age: 82 †
Born: 1934
Born: September 21
Died: 2016
Died: November 7
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Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
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Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else. Then let's be quiet together.
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I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.
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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.
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May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.
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It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.
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The big change is the proximity to death.
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Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.
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All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.
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If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.
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I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
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There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac.
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My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style.
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You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.
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I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.
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The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.
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